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The Stalingrad Madonna
 In reading Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad, do any of you recall the passage concerning the "Fortress Madonna"? I've just completed the book & give it high marks by the way. The "Madonna", is a rendering of the virgin Mary. It was drawn on the back of a Red Army map by Dr. Kurt Reuber, a German soldier trapped in Stalingrad on Christmas day, 1942. Apparently, the drawing was smuggled out of Stalingrad by a 16th Pz Div battalion commander and now hangs in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin. What's even further interesting is that many adaptations of Reuber's work can now be found throughout several churches in Germany. Some examples- St. Andreas/FULDA/GERMANY http://www.st-andreas-fulda.de/html/madonna.htm Marienkapelle/NIEDERGAILBACH/GERMANY http://www.derbliesgau.de/Orte/Niedergailbach/niedergailbach_st.htm Dom/LIMBURG/GERMANY http://www.grabmal24.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid= 16 Kloster Kirchberg/KIRCHBERG/GERMANY http://www.klosterkirchberg.de/Press/archiv/kp006b.htm#p11 Kirche „Kreuzauffindung“/SCHÖNEBERG/GERMANY http://www.bistumsblatt.paulinus.de/archiv/0305/blickpkt.htm Bründlkapelle/FRONSBURG/AUSTRIA http://www.fotos-geschichten.at/zaryzynstalingradwolgograd.htm Stephanskirche/BADEN BEI WIEN/AUSTRIA http://www.fotos-geschichten.at/zaryzynstalingradwolgograd.htm What a cauldron of Hell that battle must have been. 
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12-17-2006, 09:01 PM
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Amazing! I cannot even imagine what those soldiers on either side went through... Our Lord's birthday is remembered and held special, even in 'hell."
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"Besides, the atheist non-god is not going to send me to non-hell for my lapse of non-faith if it should turn out that I am mistaken." - John C. Wright
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